André Balazs, the 60-year-old owner of luxury hotels around the world including the Standard Hotels chain and the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles, has been accused of groping multiple women. Balazs has not commented on the allegations.

"I witnessed behavior by André Balazs that was inappropriate and offensive," Mary Elizabeth Ellis, the wife of another start of the film, Charlie Day, said in a statement to the Times. Bateman reportedly confronted Balazs and spat gum in his face before quickly leaving the hotel with Anka.

"On behalf of Jason Bateman and Amanda Anka, we can confirm that the account of André Balazs’s outrageous and vile behavior on that night in London is factual," the couple's publicist said in a statement.

The story includes accounts from two other women, including a former employee at the Chateau Marmont, who say Balazs touched them inappropriately. It also quotes Elodie Trouche, who worked as one of Balazs's personal assistants for two years starting in 2011, who says she did not witness inappropriate behavior at the company's headquarters and called Balazs "professional and polite."

The Times attempted to contact Balazs through his executive assistant, hotel managers, and his publicist, Pierre Rougier. Multiple messages left by the newspaper's reporters went unreturned. Town & Country contacted Rougier's office on Friday, and neither he nor Balazs were available for comment prior to this story's publication.

Here are a few things you should know about the hotelier.

Balazs was born in 1957 in Cambridge, Massachusetts to Hungarian immigrants.

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